RHIZOPHORACEm, 307 



13? Weihea Speeng.* — Flowers nearly of Cassi'pourea^ 4-6- 

 merous; stamens 15-30. Germen at broad base internally adnate 

 to receptacle ; cells 3, 4, 2-ovulate.2 Fruit tardily septicidal.^ Seeds * 

 albuminous, embryo, etc., of Cassi;poiirea. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, entire or serrulate ; flowers axillary, solitary or cymose 

 3-Go .5 Other characters of Cassijpourea.^ {Ceylon, trop, west. 

 Africa, Madagascar J) 



ly. ANISOPHYLLE^. 



14. Anisophyllea E. Be. — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle con- 

 cave tubular. Calyx epigynous; folioles 4, valvate, finally erect. 

 Petals 4, alternate, inserted with sepals, entire or emarginate, oftener 

 2-]obed or lacerate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate and alternating with glands 

 of epigynous disk ; filaments subulate compressed ; anthers often 2- 

 dymous, 2-rimose within, sometimes in oppositipetalous stamens 

 glanduliform (or 0). Germen 4-locular; cells oppositipetalous, 1- 

 ovulate; styles 4, distinct, recurved at apex. Ovule descending; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit oblong, terete, often costate, 

 drupaceous or coriaceous, naked or (?) widely 3-4-alate, indehiscent ; 

 seed descending ; radicle of exalbuminous fleshy embryo macropod 

 clavate ; folioles of inferior gemmule oo , decussate. — Trees or shrubs 

 glabrous or sericeous; leaves distichously alternate, all equal or 

 oftener the alternate ones minute stipuliform ; the others larger, at 

 base equal or unequal, 3-7-plinerved at base, coriaceous (often 

 lutescent), exstipitate ; flowers axillary spicate or subracemose, 

 articulate ; bracteoles minute or 0. ( Tro'p, Asia, Malaya, Malacca, 

 trojQ. ivest. Africa.) — See p. 295. 



1 Si/st. ii. [1825] 559. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. ^ Flowers (where known) white. 



27, 38.— B. H. Gen. 681, n. 11.— Hook. Fl. Ind. '' A genus very likely, together with Bacty- 



ii. 440. — Eichiceia Dup.-Th. Gen. Nov. Mad. 25. lostemon, better referred to a section of Cassi- 



— Anstrutheria Gardn. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. pourea (?). 



vi. 344, t. 4. — Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 70, 7 Spec, about 9. DC. Prodr. iii. 34 {Gassipou- 



78. red). — Benth. Niger, 341 {Cassipourea). — Tijl. 



2 Micropyle densely closed. Ann. Se. Nat, ser. 4, vi. 119, n. 1-5, 7 (Cassipu- 

 Fleshy ; valves thick 3, 4. rea). — Thw. Enum. PI. Zetjl. 121 {Anstrutheria). 



^ Arillate ; radicle of often coloured (green- — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 410. — Walp. Ann. ii. 



ish) embryo superior, subcapitate at apex. 173 {Anstrutheria) ; vii. 952 {Cassipourea). 



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